Knife River Corp

Note 14 -Business segment data

We focus on the vertical integration of our products and services by offering customers a single source for construction materials and related contracting services. We operate in 14 states across the United States through our operating segments: Pacific, Northwest, Mountain, North Central, South and Energy Services. These operating segments are used to determine the Company’s reportable segments, Pacific, Northwest, Mountain, Central and Energy Services, which are based on our method of internal reporting and management of our business. Four of the reportable segments are aligned by key geographic areas due to the production of construction materials and related contracting services and one is based on product line. Each segment is led by a segment manager who reports to the Company’s chief operating officer, who is also the Company's chief operating decision maker, along with the chief executive officer. The chief operating decision maker evaluates the performance of the segments and allocates resources to them based on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, depletion and amortization ("EBITDA").

In the fourth quarter of 2023, we realigned our reportable segments to better support our operational strategies. The liquid asphalt and related services portion of the Pacific segment's businesses are now reported under the Energy Services segment. In addition, the North Central and South operating regions have been aggregated into one reportable segment, Central. We also reallocated certain amounts to the operating segments that were previously reported within Corporate Services. All periods have been recast to conform with the revised presentation.

Each geographic segment offers a vertically integrated suite of products and services, including aggregates, ready-mix concrete, asphalt and contracting services, while the Energy Services segment produces and supplies liquid asphalt, primarily for use in asphalt road construction, and is a supplier to some of the other segments. Each geographic segment mines, processes and sells construction aggregates (crushed stone and sand and gravel); produces and sells asphalt; and produces and sells ready-mix concrete as well as vertically integrating its contracting services to support the aggregate-based product lines. Contracting services include heavy-civil construction, asphalt and concrete paving, and site development and grading. Although not common to all locations, the geographic segments also sell cement, merchandise and other building materials and related services.

Corporate Services represents the unallocated costs of certain corporate functions, such as accounting, legal, treasury, information technology, human resources and other corporate expenses that support the operating segments. We account for intersegment sales and transfers as if the sales or transfers were to third parties. The accounting policies applicable to each segment are consistent with those used in the audited consolidated financial statements.

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The information below follows the same accounting policies as described in the audited financial statements and notes included in the Company's 2023 Annual Report. Information on the Company's segments was as follows:

A reconciliation of consolidated operating revenues to reportable segment operating revenues is as follows:

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A reconciliation of consolidated net income before income taxes to reportable segment EBITDA is as follows: